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14 February 2013

The ethics of community mapping

This post on the ethics of community mapping raises some great questions. It asks the tough questions that every VGI and PPGIS person should be asking, like:
"Is digital mapping really about communities, or are we really just using
communities as a backdrop to showcase our own innovation and coolness
or that of our donors?"

It is based on the NY Technology Salon panel from February. Good stuff.

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About the Author

An Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture in Rutgers’ School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. He also serves as Associate Director of the Grant F. Walton Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis and Undergradaute Program Director for Environmental Planning and Design. As a graduate of Kentucky (BSLA), LSU (MLA) and Wisconsin (PhD), he has a passion for the critical role of state universities as a source for world-class research and education based on inquiry arousal but is too busy keeping up this award-winning blog. Dr. Tulloch can be reached at dtulloch[at]crssa.rutgers.edu

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